Since the announcement of the free Log Insight for vCenter Server edition I have received a lot of questions about what you can and can…
Log Insight 3.3 for vCenter Server
A major announcement with Log Insight 3.3 is that everyone with a supported vCenter Server Standard, Enterprise, or Enterprise Plus license gets an edition of…
vCenter Server Locale and Log Insight
As you know, Log Insight supports integration with vSphere. One part of the integration is the collection of vCenter Server events, tasks and alarms. If…
Handy vSphere Queries in Log Insight
In case you missed it, William Lam recently put up a couple of excellent posts on how to configure some important vCenter Server alarms. As it turns…
Log Insight: vSphere Integration
One of the great features of Log Insight is its tight integration with other VMware products. One of these integrations is with vSphere. I have…
Configuring Remote Syslog on vSphere Using vCenter Log Insight
Now that you have vCenter Log Insight deployed and configured, you need to configure sources to send their log messages to Log Insight. If you…
Automating VCSA Configuration
If you have deployed the VCSA a couple of dozen times like me then you quickly realize that it is necessary to script the initial…
Host is not responding
I was recently deploying a Cloud Foundry instance and was experiencing errors during the deployment. From the several failed deployments, I received the following BOSH…
Cannot install the vCenter agent service. Cannot upload agent
During a recent change ticket in a non-production environment I was called into an All Paths Down (APD) situation on some ESXi hosts. For those…
A general system error occurred internal error vmodl.fault.HostCommunication
I am in the process of building my home lab. I recently purchased two servers and installed ESXi 4.1 on them. In addition, I deployed…